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Hey luv!
You are probably off at your grad party right now--congrats on making it!
Can't wait to hear how it went.
xoxoxoxoxx
Bargie.
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Hey You!
Congrats on leveling out at 115! I know you were up and down for a little while...that is so awesome. I'm way proud of you. And your summer job sounds completely fun...I'm going to be stuck in a coffee shop when I'm not outside playing and climbing and stuff....definately an exercise in will POWER!
I am also down another couple of pounds (horray!)...I don't think I'll make it to 140 by the end of the weekend..but I'm definately going to keep this up all summer (well, maybe with a few indulgences--especially on my birthday coming up at the end of June!)
My newest goal is 130 by August 10th
(that's when Ben gets home from his summer down in South America)
So I'm going to keep working hard and the reward will be the moment Ben sees me! (Don't you just love those jaw-drop moments)
I'm having a lot of fun (well, "fun" is maybe an overstatement..he he) adding more and more cardio to my program. I'm aiming for an hour at least five days a week, plus climbing and other stuff. (I'm still learning about weights--haven't quite figured those out yet, but AM having a lot of fun on a fitness ball!! he heee)
yeah girlfriend! Knock 'em dead at that party!
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hey there little lady!
i'm so sorry, i've been studying my ass on. haha. my last final is thursday-- i'm 115 again! wahoo! but i've totally plateaued, cus i keep eating badly and going to like 117 and being like noooo and doing really well and going back down and then studying with my muffin. but after thursday, that won't be a problem.
oh god, the grad party is a week from today. and then two days after that is graduation. i'm gonna see zeke.. and the rest of the world..
so, i'm not flipping out, but i'm not where i want to be. but i'll do what i have been doing, and then friday through tuesday i'll work out double hard. and then maintain that until my summer job starts- which is being an assistant teacher in the dance program at a camp! that'll be a fun workout. teaching dance all day.
i'm sorry i haven't been writing! i've missed you to, it's so funny that happens.
how are you doing with everything? are you feeling less sick?
i'm proud of you! we're being pretty diligent, considering all the stuff surrounding us!
rock on, baby girl!
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Hey You!
Just wanted to drop a note of encouragement! Hope you're feeling awesome these days--only a week or so to go until your big event. I'm sure you'll look fabulous no matter what the scale says.
I'm feeling pretty good--I got a little sick a couple days ago, so I haven't worked out a lot recently, but I am eating good and feel good now!
much love
bargie xox
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Hey beautiful!
Oh--it was so nice seeing my little e-mail notification that you posted--I actually missed you girlfriend!
So sorry about your boy--but I am a big believer of trusting what happens.
And if this summer of absent boys drives us to be smokin' hot (FOR US!!) then it's really the best thing that's ever happened.
Your eating plan sounds so awesome--it's sorta the direction I've been going in anyway. I'll join you, for sure, but this will be my day:
Breakfast=egg and/or yogurt
lunch=big salad with tons of veggies and greens, a hard boiled egg and turkey breast
dinner=fruit smoothie
to drink I'll have herbal tea (iced peppermint tea is my favorite summertime drink, or an iced yerba mate...with a little soy milk it is heaven...) and of course, fruit to snack.
I've been doing really well with exercising (climbing and hiking almost every day, after work, and slowing adding big cardio sessions to the mornings), and I'm down about 5 pounds, but I like this last push to the end. NO MISSING A SINGLE DAY--we'll reward ourselves at the end! I KNOW we can do it! YEAH! Sexy babes!
muchooooo luv
bargie
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hey! i'm so sorry I haven't been in touch.. my boyfreind and I broke up, which is kinda sad but really the reason is I suck at working computers haha and my airport is broken so I couldn't figure out how to go online.
i totally agree about the dating pre-req haha; it should also be a freind pre req cus all my freinds are like totally annoyed at me. whatever, i feel like as long as we know why we're so burnt out and busy we can make it ok with everyone else. and it's gonna be so awesome when ben comes back! he's gonna be like, i don't care if you're a ghost, as long as when i DO see you, you look like THAT!! haha
and now i'm feeling even more driven to lose the weight, cus when zeke (my ex) graduates, i may never see him again-- and i want him to have the most amazing image of me before he goes.
ok, so my new plan.. it's just a couple weeks left!
i can only eat fruits, veggies, poultry and fish. i can drink soy milk, water, emergen-c, and coconut milk. i can add vinegar, vineagrette, flax seeds.
so, an average day:
breakfast= fruit, soy-milk, vitamin pill, calcium pill, ocp, coffee.
lunch= big salad with grilled chicken, diet soda.
snack= fruit or veggies, emergen-c.
dinner= fish sprinkled with flaz seeds and steamed veggies.
desert= coconut milk or soy milk.
and for excersize:
now i'm in the end-of-the-year playwrighting showcase in three plays, so i have less time for dance.. so instead of trying to do it six days a week, i'm gonna do this:
rollerblading every day at 6 am-- go to sleep earlier to wake up earlier!
rehearsals for plays most days.. figure out at night the nexy day in terms of dance, and at the begginning of the week, figure out how to do 6 classes in that week.
wish me luck! but i also think that now, i really don't have enough time to miss one day, so i won't! i can't! ahhh!!!!!
keep the faith, you're gonna be soooo hot!!
love love love, forte.
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Whew! Ok, DAY 1!!
I had to come check out this support you wrote before taking off for work, 'cause I went out partying last night, and the morning after always makes me want to drink coffee and eat anything with sugary carbs (think cinnamon rolls, or scones, etc...) and I definately don't want to work out this morning--I'll go after work.
So I made myself a fruit smoothie--yummy organic bananas, dates, blueberries and a pear (all fruit and delicious, especially since the bananas and blueberries were frozen--it is more creamy than you would imagine!) and sat down to read you cheering me on! Thanks for that!
It really does help to have you as my buddy--I am going to resolve for the next four weeks that if I ever want to break my plan, I'll come and read our most recent posts first--then if I still want to, well Goddess ordained it so. he heee.
Have fun dancing today (though acting CAN be just as much of a workout...)
You are preaching to the choir, lady. My poor boy always says something like "I'm dating a ghost...You're so burnt by the time you get home to me....Why is all your energy gone?" I think it should be a pre-req before I start dating anyone new that they take two back-to-back dance classes...perhaps an African, THEN a ballet...then write their papers...and see how they feel at the end of it. Speaking of my boy...he is off to South America to do some work with a clinic for the summer---two and a half months of being...SINGLE for me! AHHHH! It's been so long! But these goals I am working on will definately help me feel sexy...and if Ben and I do get back together at the end of the summer...well, I'll blow his mind...he hee! ...but I miss him already...
Your plan sounds fab! (I love stretching in the shower, too!) I'd love to start rollerblading again--maybe I can find some good ones at a second-hand store or something.
BALLET! Oh...ballet goddess! The only freakin' amazing form where you can be working your booty off and be sweating...and not move from one spot on the ground. So INCREDIBLE!
Great deal about the dinner thing--yeah, schedules are so rough. But even just cutting out the latenight snacks/meals (he he) is awesome!
Alright my darling! Good luck today! Keep dancing to those cellphone tunes! Horray!
much lurve
bargie
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wow, that sounds AWESOME!
i think you can do it!!! i KNOW you can!
i'm feeling much better; i'm constipated (scuse the lang) which always happens after i've been sick, cus i don't drink enough due to not being awake haha. but i have rehearsal for this acting thing (my freind is a playwrighting major and asked me to be in his play.. i used to act pretty heavily, so it's always fun to go back to that.) tonight so i'll just do that and thn sleep, and then tomorrow i'm doing dance first thing. i'm excited, i really miss dance.. it's been like a week!
what fun! a trip!! awesome, so we have 4 weeks! i'm not a member of a gym, and i've contemplated it, but i think i'd rather do outside stuff like rollerblading, seeing as i don't have loads of time.. which by the way is realllly taking a toll on my boy. he says he feels like hes dating a ghost. i guess that's not gonna last. but its ok, i'll have more time to work out! haha that sounds morbid, but i really feel like dance does need to be my first priority now, and even though i love him i don't need him, ya know? meh.
ok, so here's what i'm gonna do..
mornings: jump rope for a few minutes, stretch for 10 or 15 minutes, rollerblade for at least 40 minutes, stretch in the shower.
every day: ballet! if enough energy, another dance class, jazz or modern or african or whatever, but really get the core in shape with ballet.
also, stretch every night before bed.
in terms of eating.. i'll do some sort of carb in the morning, like toast or oatmeal, maybe an egg.
lunch will be a great big yummy salad, there's this amazing place near my school. perfect.
and for dinner, protein. fish or chicken or turkey or.. yea. something like that. maybe some brown rice and steamed veggies. mmmmm..
and if i need a snack during the day, an apple; i read somewhere that an apple has a similar affect as caffeine to your brain! that's good for you to know if you're trying to quit coffee, just eat an apple.
and i'll carry a water bottle with emergen-c. love it.
and noooo eating after dinner! not gonna give myself a time limit, due to the variety of my sched, but just after dinner, it's enough.
yayy!! awesome!
ooh, also, i put my cellphone alarm as "dancing queen" and my ring on "hips don't lie." i know, i'm a huge dork, but it's fun. haha. it gets me dancin.
sundays, i'll give myself the little leeway of eating the corn bread after church.. but that's it. no rest for me! i find that if i rest i get tired.
ok, that was reeeally long haha but WE ROCK!!!!
i feel a renewed excitement about this. let's do it!
love, forte.
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Oh no darling!
feel better--give yourself TIME to rest and rejuvinate! When I'm sick like that I take an aromatherapy bath with lavender, eucalyptus, and tea tree pure essential oils. (My mom is an aromatherapist, so I'm a bit of a snob when it comes to quality--but hey! It's your body! Use good things on it!
And I KNOW that studying for finals all the time doesn't help. (i always end up eating comfort food--as I have evidenced this past month--just to get through ridiculous finals time.) hopefully you can find other ways to fly through this time.
I just got a suprise from my dad--who lives in california--he bought me a plane ticket to come home on the weekend of june 17th and 18th (right when you are doing your placement auds) So that is my new challenge goal. It is exactally 4 weeks away. I figure I can do anything for 4 weeks (and the reward at the end of it will be a big ol' shopping trip with my mom, I'm sure) So, this is my challenge starting tomorrow morning. (Today I'm going into the city, so I'm allowing myself a little leeway, especially after working out so hard yesterday)
Morning routien:
strength exercises (ya know, the body stuff I pretend I do everyday anyway like a bunch of plies on each leg, pushups, crunches, etc...)
yoga (horray!)
45 minutes cardio (I was doing the stairmaster at the gym yesterday--DAMN THAT THING GETS YOU SWEATING...I can't do 45 minutes on it yet, but it's definately a goal... or I'll go for a jog)
Sometime during the day (most likely after work):
climbing
Monday, Wednesday, Friday:
Weights (this is a new thing for me--a friend who used to work at a gym just showed me a great sequence...a lot for the arms, which is really good for me--I'm a weakling...)
And...for food!
breakfast: fruit smoothie
lunch: rice and veggies
dinner: protein meal (like salmon or tempeh or rice and beans or something..with tons of veggies and nuts and stuff)
SUNDAY--DAY OF REST (we can't forget these)
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whew! It seems like a lot! but a month goes by so quickly, and we really can do anything. (I'm just thinking about the hell I went through LAST month--and this is actually good for me!) I'm really excited to see how I feel at the end of these four weeks--and I feel super committed to it!
Good luck with all those classes you want to take! And rollerblading every morning! WOW! YEAH!
much support girl!
xoxoxoxx
Bargie
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heya lady!
oh lord, i am sooo jealous! i'm sick again (or still, really.. never gave myself enough recovery..) so i haven't been working out, but i've still been eating pretty well, considering. i cannot WAIT for summer. it's that time of the year where there's no reason at all to go to class, cause it's all about studying for finals now, but they still make you go. so i feel like a total letharge. haha, is that a word?
your day sounds awesome! i'm so proud!
i would LOVE to make some little challenges for each other.. i need to really challenge myself in dance, cus the end-of-the-year auds for next year are on june 18th, which is getting really close, and i feel like i'm not at the level i could be. so, mostly i wanna challenge myself to just go to all the classes i plan to go to, and also to go rollerblading every morning. no exceptions.
what about you? what shall i challenge you to do?
i think that's a really good idea.
good luck, and much love!
-forte
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hey!
So today feels way good! SUMMERTIME ROCKS! (there's just so much...time!)
This morning I did some yoga and went on a jog (working up to that morning run--I'll get there!)
Then this afternoon I went to the gym and worked out really hard...feels soooo good.
Managed to stay pretty hydrated too!
And I ate well (but, of course, after 4:00 is always the test for me--I definately tend to go downhill then...wish me luck!)
Hope it was sunny and beautiful where you live too! horray!
bargie
xoxoxoxoxoxx
p.s. wanna make some little challenges for eachother? (We could probably just dig up one of the different ones we've made over the last month and could never follow through on...) sounds good to me...
p.p.s. Hey! don't despair about 120! At least you didn't bump back up to your starting weight! That's awesome!
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hey you
glad to hear you're back on the right track-- I feel like I'm getting back on track, too!
today I did pretty good
breakfast: smoothie
lunch: veggie burrito (vegan!)
snack: brown rice and greens
dinner: salmon and brown rice and veggies
Looks pretty good, right? Well...I work at a coffee shop now (new summer job) so, OF COURSE, I had to indulge in little samples all day--whenever I was offered...things like leftover frappes and muffin samples...aye, me.
I really want to keep that sorta thing limited, (along with finally starting to cut way back on the caffeine that has been my fuel for the past month...aye!)--I think I'll save my next indulgence of that sort for when I am down below 150
AND today I went climbing at the gym--which was awesome. I always feel sooo good after a good workout.
Tomorrow I am going to learn more about weight lifting-- I've never really done any of that before, but I am excited to try. My friend guarantees me that it's the way to loose body fat. I just want to feel strong and tight, anyway.
How's your morning running going? I'm thinking of starting back up again tomorrow.
mucho love
bargie.
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hey ya!
oh gosh, i know, i haven't written for a while. it's cus i got kinda sick, and had a nasty fight with my boy, so i got down and didnt eat so well. mostly just all my boyfreind's like crackers and cereal and crap like that.
SO i'm making a new rule; i can only eat what i buy! unless he cooks for me, which is really nice. but in general, if i need to snack, or for breakfast, or whatever, i'll eat my ownnn groceries.
and today i ate really well.
so that's my news!
i'm back up to 120 from my weekend of gluttony (so depressing that it takes like 2 weeks to get down and 2 days to get back up. meh.) but i have sooo much more drive now, and am going to write out a schedule for the week now in order to get myself started.
i hope all is well with you, climbing sounds good.
yay graduation! that's my goal, is graduation! i'm glad mine is later than yours.. haha..
much love and support.
-forte
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WOW!
It's been waaaaaaay too long!
How are you lady?
Life has shifted gears completely--graduation was on Saturday, and, of course, parties all week end...ack!
I went climbing outside today--it was really wonderful weather and just fabulously beautiful.
I got sick after school ended on Friday--nasty chest cold, so I'm going to go rest up. Working in the morning, so I shouldn't make it a really late night.
Alright--I'd love to hear from you. and see where we are for our goals.
love
b
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wow.......ok, no kombucha for you.
(hee hee--though your description of your...uh...condition...was hilarious. I laughed out loud.)
yum--the soy milk-pb-banana smoothie sounds like my favorite thing in the world...I know what you mean about not being always into smoothies. They come and go in phases for me. But when I'm on them, they're practically all I ever feel like eating.
Thanks for the pep talk--yeah, I really want to get into this.
It's just frustrating with it because we were so ready, like a week ago and then both of our lives just collapsed a little.
Do you count your calories daily and try to stay in the number range? I think I'm supposed to be between 1200 and 1500 but I haven't been keeping good track. Is it important, you think?
Alright--yes, going to go ROCK that last paper I have to write! (And drink some water--I think I'm a bit dehydrated!)
mucho love
bargie
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i'll tell you a secret.. i'm deathly afraid of mushrooms. i'm a totally irrational fungus-aphobe; i'm scared of moss too, and of mold. if theres mold on my food i cry usually. and i've never once in my life eaten a mushroom. i guess i won't be trying that drink any time soon.. teehee..
yummmm i love peanut butter! sometimes for a snack i simply fill a spoon with pb and suck on it. mmmm. and i love those kinds a smoothies! around the corner from where i live is this great smoothie place, and i'm not sooo big on smoothies, only every once in a while, but when i get a craving i get a soy milk- pb- banana smoothie. very good.
159 is not bad at all! it's so nice that you're done with the show (i know, i always crash after a show) and now you'll get into it and drop those pounds. i've been going up and down, between 118 and 121, and it's frustrating. it's making me a little crazy. i just have to push past this plateau.
saturday i got out of rehearsal late, at 5, so i couldn't do the no-after-4 thing, but i only had a salad, so i was good. and yesterday was a greatttt day, i rollerbladed over the bridge to dance, which was 2 and a half hours, and then rollerbladed back. and today i'm sore and exhausted. and hungry. i've been really hungry all day. i feel like this is an off day; but i'll stick to my calories and i'll start tomorrow morning with pilates. i'm trying to stay positive.. haha.
pedicure sounds fun! i feel like pedicures are wasted on my feet, haha, but i love how they feel. i'm gonna treat myself when i get to 115 (and stay there for 3 days, cus my weight can be so fluctuant) with a bikini wax. and that gives me extra incentive, cus i need one soon, haha. it's kind of a weird treat cus it hurts so bad, but i love em. teehee.
you're almost done! rock those finals! WE'RE GETTING CLOSER EVERY DAY!!!!
love much love,
fortissitissitissima.
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hey darlin'
mmmmmmmmmm....
I'm drinking a yummy yummy smoothie for breakfast--lowfat yogurt and tons of fresh fruit and a little Peanut Butter (I'm hooked on Peanut Butter in my smoothies)
Writing a paper and generally enjoying the morning. Feels amazing to be done with my show--though, of course, I got sick over the weekend. Isn't that always what happens? Must have been the cast party on top of all the exhaustion of last week...
This week looks much nicer--just a couple more papers to crank out, a small showing on Thursday and I'M DONE!
So it was with great trepidation that I stepped on the scale this morning and it was kind of a bummer: 159
But it REALLY doesn't suprise me after the insane stress of last week. It wouldn't have suprised me if I had gained 5 pounds. At least it was only a couple. It is usually pretty easy for me to drop those couple of 'stress' pounds. Hopefully by next Monday it'll all be good and I'll be on my way to my goal (which is creeping closer and closer every day!) It's a brand new week and brand new commitment!
How are you doing with your goal? What are you weighing in at now?
I've decided that once I get below 150 I am going to treat myself to a pedicure. That will be my little reward for myself--and so nice for summer!
How did the no-after-4 experiment go? I'm doing it this week for sure. (to get below 157 at the very least!)
Hope your final-thing was ok!
Hope your day is lovely--can't wait to hear how you're doing!
Love love
bargie
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FORTE! FORTISSIMO! (he heee)
WHEW
Can't believe the show FINALLY opened! And it actually went really REALLY well--we had a really great house too...I'm a little exhausted this morning (and look a bit like a rockstar with the leftover eyeliner and crazy bed-head) but need to get a couple of hours in towards these final papers that I've been avoiding.
Just one more show....just one more show...wow...(we had a short run this time 'cause the venue got double-booked, but I'm not complaining!)
ohh god! Bikram yoga is insane--don't really like it myself 'cause I feel like it cooks all the life out of me. Once I did the 30-day bikram challenge...insane, yes, insane. (yeah--I've tried a lot of things for being so young...)
I'm sure you'll loose, like 5 pounds in water weight...but I also have some weirdness with bikram yoga because they've actually PATENTED the sequences, and it feels so much more like a fad workout than an actual potentially deep practice. (Like, what else can the Americans consume from Indian culture, and market it in a special way?) but, hey, you may love it! Just be aware that it's not exactally the pure practice of yoga. I think that's the best thing we can do anyway while living in the U.S.A. (I will now step off my soap box)
If you googled kombucha you'll know now that it's a type of tea, really--with live mushroom cultures. Sounds gross? But try it--you may get hooked! And its great for your whole G.I. tract and general happy health!
Hope your test thing went alright! And don't forget to eat a good meal at 4 today! YOu can do it! We can do it!!!
love,
bargie
xoxoxoxoxoxox
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that yoga dance sounds amazing! i'm going to bikram yoga in a week; my stepmom is into yoga and Pilates and those more sedentary pretty workouts, and said that i should try bikram yoga; the room is like a million degrees, so you sweat like crazy, and she said that i would be to miserable and pissed off to be bored. haha. so i'm gonna try it.
what is kombucha? i've never heard of it. i'm gonna google it. teehee.
i'm excited for tomorrow's no eating after 4 thing. i'm making some chicken breast and steaming veggies right now for dinner, cause i have a like pre-final-test thing tomorrow, so i'm cramming tonight. fun. waaaaah.
love, forte (it's a nickname, but nobody calls me anything else. my dad's italian and when i was little he called me it cause it means brave and strong, but my family jokes that he really called me it cause it means loud. ha.)
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Hey Forte (is that your nickname, real name?)
Thanks for reminder--same one I gave you last week.
"give yourself these last few days..."
will do. will do. I'll even hide the scale until I'm ready to make this my new priority. Just focusing on being hot on stage is all I need right now(!) yessssssssssssssssss...
I'm drinking a kombucha right now....zingy and yummy. I think it has ginger in it too. Makes such a good hot weather drink...kinda the same feeling as drinking a beer-- and it is really good for you too! (double bonus--helping the liver rather than breaking it down...)
You are so cute, wanting to do a yoga across-the-floor.
You won't believe this, but I have been working with a yoga instructor,we're both dancers, and we have been putting together pieces of yoga choreography. Dealing with the fact that it is such an internal practice in a very external way. Very fun...and an amazing way to really start digging the different asanas. When you look at them as amazing shapes in space, the whole thing gets transformed.
I think yoga is one of those things that you have to "fake it 'till you make it" and then you'll suddenly be addicted...that's what happened to me anywhat and now I can't imagine going a day without going into "downward facing dog" pose. (Plus, I need a lot of work on my core, so this keeps that engaged in a flowing sort of way).
Let me know how Saturday's experiment goes with not eating after 4. I am definately going to recommit to that on Saturday as well.
It is helpful for me to think of it as a practice. There is a Buddhist teaching which asks us not to eat at inapporpriate times. Many monks observe not eating after the noon meal--but we're sooooo active, I think not eating after 4 would be a great equivalent. A way of watching what you mind creates around food. (What does our body actually need, vs. what do we crave or create meaning around?)
I'm off-- going to get some yummy fish before my show tonight. Yes, protein.
Love,
Bargie
(my last name is a mouthful to say--so it has just been shortened to this--and I can't seem to shake it!)
xoxoxoxoxoxoxx
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Hey pretty lady.
i totally hear you about the stressing thing. give yourself these last few days. and then you can think about it like, food is the easiest thing you're doing, and you've just done this crazy, difficult show, and you're in finals, so if you can do all that you can control your own eating. yeah!
i had the awesomest time rollerblading this morning. i went to this neighborhood called park slope, which is like a mile away, and back, and i totally get now why its called park slope! it was practically all uphill the way there and downhill the way back, which was so amazing and invigorating. love it.
yay yoga! i actually SUCK at yoga, and everyones like that doesnt make sense, you're a dancer! but im so bad. i just get bored. like pilates; i do Pilates once a week, and it's so hard to make myself go, cus i get so bored. but i feel so good afterward. in yoga im always just like, can we do an across the floor? haha. but thats awesome that you do it. it looks so pretty.
i know what you mean by drinking glitter! haha you're adorable.
today i ate really well, and i think saterday i'm going to try the no-food-after-4 thing, just to see what it feels like to me. i can't do it tomorrow, cus i have class until 6; so a similar binge thing would happen to me. i'm sorry about that, it feels terrible. but hey, one pound up is better than like 5! i'm sure you'll be back on your way down after the show. do extra protein-- whenever i have a show i practically only eat meat. i crave it and need it. meat and muffins, weirdly enough, haha.
have fun with your last few nights! savor them! feel sexy and you will be.
love, forte. why is your nickname bargie? it's cute.
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Hey
I'm glad you're feeling so good! What a happy post! Yay! Hope the angel cake was...angelic. It's great when you find little treats like that which can actually work for you. (Let you in on one of my fav things in the world--Perrier lime mineral water...I know, silly, right? But it tastes like drinking glitter!)
I was thinking that really, if you just create one really ON day for yourself, it becomes so much easier. For me, the trick really is the first day....sooo hard...! I HOPE last night was as good as your day for you.
Rollerblading is AMAZING for you. Totally a leg and booty workout..and it burns something like 600 cals an hour! Awesome on finding a cool pair...I haven't roller bladed in years...
Not eating after four works really well....if in fact your schedule LET'S you eat at 4 o'clock. Yesterday we were going through a crazy tech rehearsal and I didn't have anything after an apple at one o'clock. By the time we all got to "break for dinner" it was after five and I totally BOMBED the evening. I had Pizza piled with salad (Delicious, but a huge bummer when I looked at the scale this morning and was up a pound..booo! Boo! Boo! ...sad...) Needless to say, super stress has been running high in my life this week. And way beyond ANY production that I've EVER been a part of. I can hardly begin to describe the insane dynamics being thrown around. I would like to do some serious detox for myself after all this--emotionally and physically...
SO, I'm trying to be really easy on myself--it's only for 4 more days. Forgiving and loving and all that stuff that I need a lot of right now. Food doesn't need to be ANOTHER stressor. Not with all this crazy stuff, and then final papers to finish up over the weekend after the show closes....grrrrrrrrrr....
--sigh-- alright. I'm going to a yoga class in half an hour and need to get a little work done before that happens.
CREATE another BEAUTIFUL day for yourself! When you don't want to do it, just do it girlfriend!
lots of love.
bargie. (funny nickname, i know)
P.S. OH! and I TOTALLY know about the itchy leg thing! It's so WEIRD!!
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Hi there!
I'm feeling soooo much better. I went running this morning! I actually mostly just walked, but I made it to my landmark and back-- it only took about 35 minutes, so I was walking fast, at least. haha. but oh my god, it really felt good.
I just got out of bed and started feeling like, meh, I don't wanna. and i just said to myself, DON'T THINK ABOUT IT! JUST GO! and i did and was so proud.
and I've been eating well today. I just found out that angelfood cake, which is my favorite food in the ENTIRE world, only has like 250 cals a peice, so I'm going to search my neighborhood for it. and I'm going to take rollerblades. since I hate running, cus it makes my legs itch (literally.. is that weird?) I'm gonna see if I can still rollerblade.. I haven't in years, but my roomate has pretty classy ones, teehee. do you know if rollerblading is like running, like does it get rid of your butt? i hate ma bum. boo.
you did so good! what did it feel like not eating after 4? good? hungry? ha.
GO US! i say after you reach your goal, just keep going with that plan and if you get to 125-130 that's awesome, and if you don't, then you probably just do need more weight due to your muscle; cus if you're eating that well (and little) and working out, you'll get to what weight you should be, ya know? and then to get smaller you'd probably have to like not eat. meh. don't do that.
i'm so proud of us. i'm in a good mood. imma go find me some cake.
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Good Morning!
Hope you're feeling better--take your time with that. If it's one thing dancers do too often, its plowing through the recovery time.
It's soooooooo wonderful when we can remember that we want slim, healthy bodies for our craft! Yes, we are different from other people-- we are performers...wonderful motivation when you remember how amazing you want to be on stage. I do! I do! I do!
In a more long term way I am looking ahead to next year at this time when I will be putting up my senior thesis show. My goal is to be consistently maintaining my weight between 125-130 which is at the LEAN end of the healthy range-- and of course, super buff, running, dancing, climbing (I live in Boulder, CO going to a crazy small Buddhist Liberal Arts School... there are mountains everywhere--but my folks, and heart, are back in California) machine! HORRAY!
According to the Spark tracker, I should be able to reach this goal by the end of August--so that is my goal. Whew! Big Changes...GO ME! (though I wonder if I need to be a little higher, given my muscle mass...don't know...)
But first things first, getting to June 10 and down to 140!
121 is still great! 4 pounds gone gone gone! I was also pretty bingey last week, so I doubt I lost anything, but I'll check when I get, and most likely tomorrow morning...
Yesterday was pretty good
--6 glasses of water
--4 small meal/snacks
--one fruit-only meal
--stopped eating after 4
(not running yet, but all in good time...)
ALright! Have an awesome day! May Day 2!
love.
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